“The debate over health care in this country is not a debate about medical treatment or the best way to prevent disease. It is a debate about economics and class politics.​Either we maintain a profit-driven health care system whose main function is to enrich certain individuals and institutions, or we develop a nonprofit, cost-effective system that provides quality health care for all people as a right of citizenship.”

- Bernie Sanders

Concept:

A universal health case system has been a goal since Franklin D. Roosevelt and every major industrialized nation has accomplished this with the exception of the United States of America. The Affordable Care Act was a critically important step towards that goal and thanks to the ACA, more than 17 million Americans have gained health insurance. In addition to this, millions of low-income Americans have coverage through expanded eligibility for Medicaid that now exists in 31 states.

​All Americans can benefit from increased protections against lifetime coverage limits and exclusion from coverage because of pre-existing conditions through the ACA. We must build upon this success to achieve the goal of universal health care. Twenty-nine million Americans today still do not have health insurance and millions more are underinsured and cannot afford the high copayments and deductibles charged by private health insurance companies that put profits before people.

Strategy:

The two chambers of Congress voted to begin repealing the Affordable Care Act through S.Con.Res.3 the 2017 Congressional Budget Resolution. The Senate voted a Yea-Nay vote of 51 to 48 on 01/12/2017 and the House voted a Yea-Nay vote of 227 to 198 on 01/13/2017. The U.S. Senate vote summary can be found HERE and the House vote summary HERE. S.Con.Res.3 was sponsored by Senator Michael B. Enzi [R-WY].

Concepts Forward intends to focus on the 2018 Mid-term elections.

Of the 51 Yea Senate votes, ​the following Senators are up for re-election:

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